It's for the sake of his demented ego, to validate the fading-relevance entitled ramblings of all the boomers who see themselves in him. This administration is a most potent result of our festering gerontocracy.

The infantile 20-somethings and "tech" billionaires bought into their hallucinations, reckoning that we don't need any "government" and a great way to destroy it was to support this incompetent moron who was sure to royally fuck things up somehow. Everything that he destroys gets interpreted as some kind of success, ignorant to the fact that the growing chorus of opposition is not merely from progressives being "owned".

Note the quotes around "government" because we've got a huge preexisting corporate government that will happy step into the power vacuum. The 20-somethings are naive. The tech-surveillance billionaires are sanguine.